20th Century Spanish Literature: An Overview
20th Century Spanish Literature
Poetry
Miguel Hernandez
Expert on moons, the ray that does not stop, violated the whistle, wind of the people, the man waits, songs and ballads of absences.
Generation of ’36
New attitude to poetry and life, the word takes precedence over the poetic image, the operational simplicity of the everyday as a source of inspiration and the transparency of language, the human claim over ideology, intimate and religious issues.
Poets in Exile
Juan Gil-Albert
Mysterious presence, burning horror, names are ignored, the illusions, to enter is love, source of constancy.
Bleiberg-German
The song of the night, love sonnets, beyond the ruins, mutual spring.
Rooted Poetry
Luis Rosales
April, the house on, second in April, rhymes, songs, as does cutting blood, collected poems.
Leopoldo Panero
Guadarrama verses, the empty room, written at each instant, personal song.
Dionisio Ridruejo
Plural, weapons poetry, sonnets to the stone, elegies, the first day until now.
Luis Felipe Vivanco
Time pain, continuation of life, clearing the roads.
José García Nieto
Eve to you, you and I on earth, circumstances of death, the eleventh hour, talking to himself.
Rootless Poetry
Eugenio de Nora
Poetry of Nora: love promises, singing to the destination, captive people, Spain, the passion of my life.
José Luis Hidalgo
Animals.
Ramon de Garciasol
Dead: defense of man.
Carlos Bousoño
Mayores words: rise to love, springtime of death, to another light.
José María Valverde
Man of God, the waiting lines.
Angela Figuera
Domingo: female mud, pure Soria.
Rafael Morales
Poems of the ox, the heart and earth.
Leopoldo de Luis
Dawn of the son, host of a dismal time, the impossible birds.
Vicente Gaos
Archangel of my night on earth, the light from the dream, prophecy of remembrance.
Social Poetry
Gabriel Celaya
Tide of silence, solitude closed, basic movements, quietly talking, the way things are, the cards face up, the rest is silence, peace and harmony, singing Iberians, of course it’s clear, resistance Diamond, semantic field, a function of X Jan, the right and reverse.
Blas de Otero
Spiritual Canticle, angel fiercely human, to increase awareness, anchor, we ask for peace and the word in Castilian, this is not a book, which deals with Spain, fictitious stories and true iron.
José Hierro
Earth without us, joy, with the stones, with the wind, the fifth of ’42, soon as me, hallucinations book, calendar, notebook New York.
Mid-Century Generation
Angel Gonzalez
Rough world without hope, belief, word on word, prosemas or less, deixis to ghost-fall and other lights.
José Manuel Caballero Bonald
The divinations, tender string, discredit of the hero, manual for offenders.
Jaime Gil de Biedma
People of verb.
José Angel Valente
Zero point, memory material, excerpts from a future book.
Francisco Brines
A farewell test.
Claudio Rodríguez
From my poems, a gift of drunkenness, spells, alliance and conviction, almost a legend.
Modernism
José Martí
Simple verse, free verse, Cuban verses.
Amado Nervo
The beloved still, calm, elevated, plenitude.
Leopoldo Lugones
Mountains of gold, secular odes, sentimental lunary.
Contemporary Authors
Pablo Neruda
Green horse for poetry, 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair, living in the land, Spain in the heart, singing general, elementary odes, I confess that I have lived.
Octavio Paz
Word, turn, passed it clear, tree in, laurel.
Mario Benedetti
Inventory 1, 2, 3.
Alvaro Mutis
Lost jobs, the emissaries, a tribute to 7 nocturnes.
Ernesto Cardenal
Time, Psalms, the narrow, doubtful.
Juan Gelman
Disruptions, letter to my mother, so much the night.
Experimental Novel
Is organized into separate sequences spaces, plot gives room for the fantastic and dreamlike, a technique of counterpoint, characters receive individualized treatment, his life is told chronologically, begins abruptly and is open ended, the language incorporates all records of speech.
Magic Realism
Jorge Luis Borges
Universal history of infamy, fictions, the Aleph, the maker, the report of Brodie, the book of sand.
Manuel Mujica Lainez
Here they lived, the beetle, the maze, the house, mysterious Buenos Aires.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Legends of Guatemala, Mr. President.
Leopoldo Lugones
Gaucho war stories, the Singer, dry river romances.
Alejo Carpentier
Cast, the kingdom of this world, Lost Steps, War Time, The Cathedral, The Rite of Spring, the use of the Baroque method, concert.
Juan Rulfo
Burning Plains, Pedro Páramo.
Comic Theater
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Eloisa is beneath an almond tree, you have eyes of femme fatale, Angelina or the honor of a Brigadier, 4 hearts with brake and reverse, the thieves are honest people, mother (father drama), white on the outside and pink inside, you and I are 3, as are the blondes is better with potatoes.
Miguel Mihura
3 hats, the case of the great lady, half-light 3, sublime decision, my dear Juan, Carlota, peaches, Maribel and the strange family, the beautiful Dorothea, Ninette and M. de Murcia, Ninette, Paris fashion, the decent, living the impossible, neither poor nor rich but on the contrary, tone, little murderess for women.
Antonio Buero Vallejo
Metaphysical and Existential
In the hot darkness, the weaver of dreams, Irene or the treasure, arrival of the gods, the foundation, the double history of Doctor Valmy.
Other Works
History of a staircase, skylight, mission to the deserted village, a dreamer to a village, meninas, the sleep of reason, the detonation, the concert of St. Ovid.